Discovery directives

A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and rela...

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Hauptverfasser: SCHLOSSER, BRIAN JOSEPH, GIAMMARIA, ALBERTO, BOYKIN, JAMES RUSSELL
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Sprache:chi ; eng
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Zusammenfassung:A mechanism for configuring and scheduling logical discovery processes in a data processing system is provided. A discovery engine communicates with information providers to collect discovery data. An information provider is a software component whose responsibility is to discover resources and relationships between the resources and write their representations in a persistent store. Discovery directives are used to coordinate the execution of information providers.